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Originally posted by Teldin:
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Honestly, things like that wouldn't be too difficult for a large creature; essentially it'd be a matter of moving 4 different tokens at the exact same pace in unity and having each one linked to the same creature. Sort of like a moving building. You could make a giant moving square if you wanted by using four of the engraved wall corner bits, for example.</STRONG>

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Isn't that what wagons do already?

I've been wanting that a long time. There are plenty of nice character sets on the Wiki which provide very pretty symbols that clearly indicate what they're of, but so long as some characters are used for several different objects (and some objects have different symbols (e.g. doors)) the game can't go beyond the ASCII symbols that put off a lot of players. I'm not sure if this is a big thing, but it's really necessary for playability and customisability.

I'm hoping to see an economy where you have to import in order to advance much. With the new version we're not guaranteed to have a lava flow, which I hope means we're not guaranteed to have obsidian. In the future I hope to see a world where you're not guaranteed iron, or copper, or tin, or whatever, and will have to make do with what you have or import. Heck, I'm hoping to see a world where there will actually be a difference between the rock types beyond the names, which are just an annoyance now.

Once we're there, trading is going to mean a lot more. Especially when granite thrones becomes all the rage and all your nobles want them, but your fortress doesn't have any granite veins...

How's that for a power goal? Fashion, and meeting it's demands... What if serrated disc traps are suddenly "out"? What if everydwarf that's somedwarf lives in a fortress that has a hundred stories tall ramp made of crystal glass leading up to the entrance?

I say dwarves ought to require some style.  

Anything that makes the dwarves more intelligent is good, I say. And it does make sense to have the dwarves have a say in what jobs they take.

You know all those annoying cleaning jobs? Where 30 dwarves are tied up for a month going to the entrance to pick up one shoe, and then going all the way to the chasm to drop it, and then going back for a mitten and so on?

I propose a method where an area or a room are tasked as one cleaning job, which is left to one dwarf to do. The first thing the dwarf does is to go to the store for an empty bin. The bin is then taken to the middle of the tasked cleaning area, whereupon the dwarf then goes around and picks up all the trash in the area and puts it in the bin.

After the trash is gone, or the bin is full, the dwarf goes to empty the entire bin at a time. Then, if there was more trash, it goes back to repeat the process. If not, it puts the bin back in the store.

One could even have a system with stationary bins that are set as trash receptacles. Dwarves will put trash there instead of the trash pile. Once in a while, haulers will haul the bin away to be emptied.

You do know some of the privileged classes in some cultures have had special servants to take their punishments for them? The royals in feudal Europe strike me as an example, and I wouldn't be surprised if it happened during feudal times in India as well. Not to mention feudal China. I mean, how else do you spank a misbehaving five year old prince when laying hands on him is high treason and punished by death?

You know, that touched on something. Bins as temp receptacles for hauling jobs.